This only begs the question... why is such information on a laptop to begin with? Why aren't these laptops locked down so that users cannot install their own software? All of these things are possible to do but a lot of people refuse to do them.
‘Cause Windoze technology has surged several years past effective security technology for same. Even though Bill Gates brags that the stuff has been in there since he wrote the first byte of Windoze, it had to be controlled. It’s like a house with locks that, when installed per the accompanying instructions, let anybody in.
Linux and other UNIX work-alikes, along with true UNIX systems, have the advantage of effective security being designed in from the get-go.